In 1869, Suriname passed a new Penal Code which decriminalised homosexuality.

On February 13, 2025, the District Court ordered the Central Civil Affairs Bureau (CBB) to register the marriage of two same-sex couples who married abroad. The ruling, regardless of whether the State appeals or not, must be implemented immediately. The case was filed with the court in October 2023.

In Suriname, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.

In 2022, the High Court rejected the State’s appeal of a lower court decision of 2017 and emphasized that fundamental human rights, including protection from discrimination and respect for private life, extend to transgender persons. It ruled that the absence of legislation cannot be an excuse for denying legal gender recognition, but the ruling narrowly defined the process for changing the gender registration of transgender persons at civil registry offices, requiring psychological assessments, complete gender reassignment surgery, and gender screening.

In January 2017, the Eerste Kantongerecht (one of 3 Courts of First Instance in Suriname) granted a transgender woman the right to have her gender formally changed with the Central Bureau of Civil Affairs and ordered the registry to officially change her registration to reflect her amended status. The Association of Pentecostal Churches in Suriname (VVPES) and the Suriname Islamic Association (SIV), which had protested against and opposed the right to recognize a gender change, indicated they would "accept the verdict". In February 2017, the Central Bureau of Civil Affairs formally appealed the court ruling. In January 2022, the Suriname Court of Appeal ruled in favor and ordered the gender change on the birth certificate of the transgender woman who had undergone sex reassignment surgery in 2009.

Access to Gender-affirming care is limited.

There's not the option of non-binary gender on Suriname gender markers.

In 2015, Articles 175(a) and 176 of the Criminal Code (1911) were amended by S.B. 2015 No. 44 to criminalise discrimination and incitement to hatred based on sexual orientation per Article 175, which includes the list of prohibited grounds.
The protections (only for sexual orientation) are: Education/Housing/Goods and services/Health/Employiment/Prohibition of Incitement

Article 1 of the Law on Equal Treatment in the Workplace (2022) bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Protections in housing only available for sexual orientation and not gender identity.

Joint same-sex adoption is not provided in Suriname. However, LGBTIQ+ singles can adopt.

Surgery on intersex infants is legal in Suriname but not reported.

There are no bans or restrictions on LGBTIQ+ people serving in the military of Suriname.

There is no known ban on MSMs donating blood in Suriname.

Conversion therapy is legal in Suriname.

The age of consent is 16 years and gender neutral. Article 302 of the Penal Code, which established a different age of sexual consent for homosexuals, was amended in 2015.